Former Sunwest CEO's sentence commuted Jon Herder, former owner of Salem-based Sunwest Management, which once owned six retirement and assisted living facilities in Yamhill County, including Hillside Retirement Community, had his 15 year sentence commuted this week by President Donald Trump. Herder was sentenced in 2015 for investment fraud following a lengthy FBI investigation resulting in what prosecutors described as the most massive investment fraud in Oregon history. He was serving his sentence at he Federal Corrections Institute in Sheridan until his release. A press release from the White House noted that Harder “fully accepted responsibility, pled guilty, and cooperated with the government’s civil and criminal actions against him at great personal cost. ... President Trump commends Mr. Harder for choosing to put his employees, investors, and the senior citizens residing in Sunwest’s homes above himself.”